Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
# Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is an annual literary prize named for the German–American publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff "honoring an outstanding literary translation from German into English" published in the USA the previous year.

The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000. The prize was established in 1996 and is funded by the German government. It was administered by the Goethe-Institut of Chicago until 2014. Since 2015, the prize has been administered by the New York Goethe-Institut.

## Recipients

| Year | Translator | Author | Title |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1996 | John E. Woods | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain |
| 1996 | John E. Woods | Arno Schmidt | Nobodaddy's Children |
| 1997 | Leila Vennewitz | Jurek Becker | Jacob the Liar |
| 1998 | John Brownjohn | Thomas Brussig | Heroes Like Us |
| 1999 | Joel Agee | Heinrich von Kleist | Penthesilea |
| 2000 | Michael Hofmann | Joseph Roth | Rebellion |
| 2001 | Krishna Winston | Günter Grass | Too Far Afield |
| 2002 | Anthea Bell | W. G. Sebald | Austerlitz |
| 2003 | Margot Bettauer Dembo | Judith Hermann | Summerhouse, Later |
| 2004 | Breon Mitchell | Uwe Timm | Morenga |
| 2005 | Michael Henry Heim | Thomas Mann | Death in Venice |
| 2006 | Susan Bernofsky | Jenny Erpenbeck | The Old Child & Other Stories |
| 2007 | Peter Constantine | Benjamin Lebert | The Bird is a Raven |
| 2008 | David Dollenmayer | Moses Rosenkranz | Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment |
| 2009 | John Hargraves | Michael Krüger | The Executor – A Comedy of Letters |
| 2010 | Ross Benjamin | Michael Maar | Speak, Nabokov |
| 2011 | Jean M. Snook | Gert Jonke | The Distant Sound |
| 2012 | Burton Pike | Gerhard Meier | Isle of the Dead |
| 2013 | Philip Boehm | Gregor von Rezzori | An Ermine in Czernopol |
| 2014 | Shelley Frisch | Reiner Stach | Kafka: The Years of Insight |
| 2015 | Catherine Schelbert | Hugo Ball | Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor |
| 2016 | Daniel Bowles | Christian Kracht | Imperium |
| 2017 | Charlotte Collins | Robert Seethaler | A Whole Life |
| 2018 | Isabel Fargo Cole | Wolfgang Hilbig | Old Rendering Plant |
| 2019 | Damion Searls | Uwe Johnson | Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl |
| 2020 | Philip Boehm | Christine Wunnicke | The Fox and Dr. Shimamura |
| 2021 | Jackie Smith | Judith Schalansky | An Inventory of Losses |
| 2022 | Vincent Kling | Heimito von Doderer | The Strudlhof Steps |
